Passionate critic, principled citizen, attentive reader and editor, energizing teacherRoy Miki is all these and more, a poet whose writing articulates a moving body of work. The two main areas of his passionate worksocial critique and poeticsinform each other in this collection of essays marking a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual. Former students of Roy Miki, editors Maia Joseph, Christine Kim, Larissa Lai, and Chris Leeresearch or write on the subject of ethnicity and Asian American literature in the English departments at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.